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darek··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
Wait, but Fastmail does have family plan, introduced 2 years ago. Just letting you know :)
darek··on Cyberscript
Yes, it was very promising, but unfortunately abandoned. And yeah, the name was bad too. But it doesn't matter. Lua/Luau is still the only serious language in this field, which is a pity.
darek··on File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
On macOS my daily driver is Nimble Commander (https://magnumbytes.com/). Super fast, powerful and inspired by Total Commander. It used to be paid but now is free and open source so give it a try. It deserves to be better known.
darek··on Luon programming language
Check out Teal - https://github.com/teal-language/tl
darek··on World of Goo 2: now available
There was this tech [1] making rounds on HN a while back. Made a big impression on me and it's by the company that co-created the World of Goo 2. I wonder if it was used to make the game.

[1] https://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/how-we-make-games-at-t...

darek··on Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine
Nebula was the tech that I watched very closely and it inspired me a lot. It was back in the ancient year of 2000, if I remember correctly, when our game was being published by CDV and I just learned about Project Nomads, based on Nebula. Beautiful engine and I loved the clean, simple and extensible architecture.

I would love to have such tech nowadays, but focused on 2D/light-3D mobile games :)

darek··on Total Commander
Yes, Nimble Commander is wonderful. The developer took a lot of care and created a powerful and very fast tool. As a long time user of Total Commander on Windows I'd be crying sad tears if I had to limit myself to the basics that Finder provides on macOS.
darek··on What can be learned from studying long gone development practices?
If I remember correctly there is a break keyword, but continue is missing. At least in Lua 5.1 which is still the most popular one.
darek··on Lua in the Kernel?
Indeed, Teal looks like it has the right brains behind it (author was involved with several earlier attempts at typed Lua) and is actively maintained. I'm personally watching it for future game development usage.
darek··on Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15
Oh yes! Notes failing to sync after iOS 13 update is something that happened to me too. And apparently other people as well, as posted on Apple's forums: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250684880
darek··on Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform
Slite perhaps?
darek··on GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
Being pro-developer in the long term might result in better consumer experience.

Being too pro-consumer on the other hand... well, that gives you mobile gaming with heavy focus on free-to-play and plenty of ads.

Be careful what you wish for :)

darek··on Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
It seems like it's won't be working on Safari for much longer. Info from 2 days ago "I can confirm that on macOS Catalina Developer Beta 1, uBlock Origin is completely removed as it is not using the MAS distribution method." Src: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/151
darek··on Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
I've been using Nimble Commander for a while now. Snappy, similar to Total Commander on Windows and I love it. The developer recently made it open source and published the code on GitHub here: https://github.com/mikekazakov/nimble-commander

I'm not sure if that's the kind of open source you were looking for, but may be worth checking out.

darek··on GitLab 10.4 released
After a few years on GitLab I moved to GitHub for these very reasons. GitLab's UI was messy and it was slow to display (as in input lag and low FPS on my reasonably powered desktop PC).
darek··on OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store
On Windows I've been using Total Commander for 15 years or more. There's nothing like it on Mac, and I've tried them all. But there's this new app, Files (http://filesmanager.info/), which is being actively developed and gaining features fast. I've been using it for some time now I'm liking it more and more. The developer behind it is very responsive and skilled and it seems to be going in a great direction. There's hope for OS X! :)